Allen Jeyarajasingam and
Alan Pearson. A Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and
Singapore. Best of the available bird guides for use in
Peninsular Malaysia. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Craig Robson, A Guide
to the Birds of SouthEast Asia. Great new guide. My only
regret is that no large paper edition is available, as the print
is VERY small. New Holland & Princeton University Press, 2000.
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Bertram E. Smythies. The Birds of Borneo.
Natural History Publications (Borneo). 4th edition 2000.
WorldTwitch
2001 Best Bird Book Award winner. Revised by Geoffrey W.H.
Davison. 853 pages. Restores the very interesting introductory
chapters about Borneo and its people from the first two
editions. Text completely revised and greatly improved. The now
familiar and dated plates could have been omitted. Essential
reference on Bornean ornithology. Poor quality binding by
obviously incompetent Malaysian publisher. This book will have
to be rebound as the cover eventually will tear off in normal
use.
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Morten Strange. Birds of South-East Asia: A
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Thailand, Malaysia,
Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. 112 pages. Almost
300 color photos. Includes some rare photos, such as a female
Black Partridge on a nest, two Actenoides kingfishers,
Dusky Oriole, and a Flyeater attending a juvenile Malayan
Bronze-Cuckoo. New Holland, 1998.
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Earl of Cranbrook (ed.) Wonders of Nature in
Southeast Asia. Excellent compilation of excerpts from
famous and obscure works by the great explorers, with comments
by Cranbrook throughout. Oxford University Press, 1997. Highly
recommended and a good value!
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Earl of Cranbrook (ed.). Malaysia.
Pergamon Press Key Environments series, 1988. Concise yet
sophisticated survey of the natural history of peninsular
Malaysia, written by experts in each discipline. Authors include
David Wells, T.C. Whitmore, Marius Jacobs, John & Soejatmi
Dransfield, H.S. Barlow & Cranbrook. The best volume in the
series, which the new owners of Pergamon have been allowing to
go out of print. 318 pages.
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John Whitehead. The Exploration of Mount
Kina Balu, North Borneo. Revised edition of the classic work
published in 1893. Whitehead was the first European to reach the
summit of Kinabalu, in 1888. The first edition included
hand-colored plates and is now rare and valuable. Graham Brash,
1993. 400 pages. Color plates.
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Leong Yee Soo. The Best of Singapore Cooking.
254 pages. Times Ed. 1998.
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Fuchsia Dunlop. Land of Plenty: A Treasury
of Authentic Sichuan Cooking. Norton 2003. 256 pages.
Excellent book, though authentic Sichuan food is hard to find
outside of China. (With a few exceptions, "Sichuan" restaurants
in the US serve unappealing American Chinese food.)
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Fuchsia Dunlop. The Revolutionary Chinese
Cookbook. Ebury Press & Norton 2006. 256 pages. Fuchsia
Dunlop is the best writer in English on Chinese food. Her new
volume is about Hunan food -- not the American Chinese food
served at nearly all American Hunan restaurants.
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